{"id":466,"date":"2013-03-20T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/20\/honeymoon-what-honeymoon"},"modified":"2013-03-20T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:03:00","slug":"honeymoon-what-honeymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Honeymoon? What honeymoon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Hill reports that President Obama\u2019s second-term \u201choneymoon\u201d may have come to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n

What a revoltin\u2019 development that is, right?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/289179-obama-honeymoon-may-be-over<\/a><\/p>\n

No one on Earth should be surprised to see Obama\u2019s poll numbers sink. He saw his popularity spike a bit after his re-election this past November. Now some polls have his approval rating at less than 50 percent.<\/p>\n

Good thing he\u2019s not running for re-election in 2016.<\/p>\n

But is this a surprise? Not at all. Other recent two-term presidents have experienced similar poll plunges. Even the late, great Ronald Reagan, the patron saint of today\u2019s tea party wing of the GOP \u2013 fresh off his landslide win in 1984 and an improving economy \u2013 suffered a decline in the polls. <\/p>\n

But few presidents have taken office lugging quite the amount of baggage that weighed down Barack Obama. The economy was in free-fall; the world\u2019s No. 1 terrorist, Osama bin Laden, was still on the loose; the nation was involved in a two-front war, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama did take some executive actions that stopped the free-fall; he ordered the May 2011 commando raid that killed bin Laden; the war in Iraq has ended and it\u2019s about to end in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Yes, the economy is still struggling to regain its full head of steam. However, some of Obama\u2019s congressional critics are insisting on a change of emphasis. They\u2019re stalling legislation. They\u2019re resisting key appointments. Their effort to make Obama a \u201cone-term president\u201d has failed, so they\u2019re settling on Plan B, which is to make his second term as uncomfortable as possible.<\/p>\n

Thus, it\u2019s no surprise to see Obama\u2019s \u201choneymoon\u201d come to an end \u2013 as if he ever got to enjoy one in the first place.<\/p>\n\n

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The Hill reports that President Obama\u2019s second-term \u201choneymoon\u201d may have come to a screeching halt. What a revoltin\u2019 development that is, right? http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/289179-obama-honeymoon-may-be-over No one on Earth should be surprised to see Obama\u2019s poll numbers sink. He saw his popularity spike a bit after his re-election this past November. Now some polls have his approval … Continue reading Honeymoon? What honeymoon?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}